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Irwandi must perform another balancing act with the ulemas, or Islamic religious leaders. Aceh is famously devout, and since 2003 has implemented shari'a-style by-laws against drinking, gambling, premarital sex and improper dress. These are now being enforced by shari'a officials, who have publicly whipped men and...
It's time for a reality check. Muslims make up about 3% of the E.U. population today, and that figure will reach no more than 10% by 2025. But the fear that radical Islam will sweep through the old Continent is symptomatic of something bigger: Europe's identity crisis. Thanks...
In fact, the U.S. officials seemed to be putting more pressure on the Iraqi government of Shi'a Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to alter its relatively warm opinion of Iran. Still, inspite of U.S. fears that the predominantly Shi'a government of Iraq is more than partial to Shi...
Meanwhile, Iraq's largest Shi'a party denied U.S. claims that two Iranian agents were seized at the home of the party's leader, Abdel-Azziz al-Hakim. Ridha Jawad Taki, a spokesman for Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRII), said the two were diplomats and were...
Before we could eat, the Iranian Ambassador, Mohammed Hassan Akhtire, a confidant of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a sentimental speech about the significance of the Iranian Revolution in 1979. In particular, the turbaned diplomat remembered that Syria was the only country to support the fledgling Islamic...